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Wednesday, 13 March 2013

March 13th in Queer History

Born this day

American writer and journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. Although none of Flanner's journalism or fiction develops in any real depth overt lesbian content or themes, she was a prominent figure in the lesbian community of expatriate Paris.

Hollywood film producer who produced such films as Dark Victory (1939), Arch of Triumph (1948), and Raintree County (1957). He was also the longtime companion of director James Whale from 1930 to 1952.

JB Harter (1940 - 2002) US
Artist / Murder Victim

Nicole Stephane(1923 - 2007) French
Actress

James Purdy (1914 - 2009) US
Author / Poet / Playwright

Sodomy in history, March 13th

1944 — An Ohio appellate court rules that cunnilingus does not violate the state’s unusually worded sodomy law. This ruling also apparently affects Iowa, Nebraska and Texas, since they copied Ohio’s law.

1954 — Kentucky enacts a Uniform Code of Military Justice, and it copies the federal code’s sodomy provision, the first in the nation to include a sodomy law.

1975 — The U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania halts surveillance of public restrooms from overhead holes without a warrant.